libgrapheme

unicode string library
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commit 4a5b4abeec1b91986ec0258289abf79b6122531c
parent fc73d06fed76dd7cde37d3704949d01391ea0032
Author: Laslo Hunhold <dev@frign.de>
Date:   Tue,  4 Oct 2022 00:17:04 +0200

Rework libgrapheme(7) a bit

Add the information about the library being freestanding and fix
wordings a bit. Reflect in the first paragraph what the library can do.

Signed-off-by: Laslo Hunhold <dev@frign.de>

Diffstat:
Mman/libgrapheme.sh | 10++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/libgrapheme.sh b/man/libgrapheme.sh @@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ cat << EOF The .Nm library provides functions to properly handle Unicode strings according -to the Unicode specification. +to the Unicode specification in regard to character, word, sentence and +line segmentation and case detection and conversion. +.Pp Unicode strings are made up of user-perceived characters (so-called .Dq grapheme clusters , see .Sx MOTIVATION ) -that are made up of one or more Unicode codepoints, which in turn +that are composed of one or more Unicode codepoints, which in turn are encoded in one or more bytes in an encoding like UTF-8. .Pp There is a widespread misconception that it was enough to simply @@ -32,6 +34,10 @@ Despite this complicated multilevel structure of Unicode strings, provides methods to work with them at the byte-level (i.e. UTF-8 .Sq char arrays) while also offering codepoint-level methods. +Additionally, it is a +.Dq freestanding +library (see ISO/IEC 9899:1999 section 4.6) and thus does not depend on +a standard library. This makes it easy to use in bare-metal environments. .Pp Every documented function's manual page provides a self-contained example illustrating the possible usage.